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VA 071EP
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Tolga Fidan returns to Vakant. Vinyl-only remix by Convextion.
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VA 044LP
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2LP version. DJ Tolga Fidan presents his debut full-length release. Machines, microphones and an electric guitar.
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VA 005CD
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DJ Tolga Fidan presents his debut full-length release. Machines, microphones and an electric guitar.
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PG 004EP
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Executive chef Tolga Fidan provides the freshest ingredients to make these three entreés. Firstly, "Double Edge Sword (Original Mix)" does what Tolga does best: tease your psychedelic taste-buds. A meaty, umami-flavored '80s electro-funk bass line anchors some wonderful call-and-response vocals. Secondly, Sammy Dee provides a reductionist exploration of sharp and concise textures, sounds and flavors. Jin Choi offers hints of citrus, acidic berries, chili and the occasional full-on root vegetable texture -- all together, not unlike a funky-ass sorbet. On brown-colored vinyl.
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VA 037LP
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"I'm listening to these six tracks again to try to make an approximation of why and how I have done this EP. Okay so, the opening track is in a way the end of an era and the last one the opening of a fresher one. And the rest fills in the gaps in between those two moments, I guess. I hate conceptual things, anyways. Includes collaborations with Jaw (dOP), my brother Atilla, who is also responsible for the artwork, and Jonny Cruz." --Tolga Fidan
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CADENZA 057EP
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Having released a series of striking records on Vakant, Tolga Fidan's music flows seamlessly into Cadenza's vanguard club sound. "Slipt It" has a yearning string melody and multi-layered grooves that crackle like firewood. "Rhythm vs. Me" sets limbs in motion with a mixture of '70s funk weirdness and the simplicity of contemporary electronics. With "Bass Ass," he switches into a more forthright mode of communication with pulsating bass, a spacious tom and a cool organ hook line.
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VALT 005EP
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Tolga Fidan presents Rezil, the latest in the Vakant Limited series! Whoever said "we need more cowbell" will be more than happy to dig this tune. A little unusual in arrangement and sound for Mr. Fidan, "Rezil" fits perfectly within the VALT format.
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FNC 048EP
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This is the debut Freak n'Chic release from Tolga Fidan, who concocts an electrically-charged couple of dancefloor tracks. "Nised" flirts with warm and feminine outcries, bubbling with a bottomless sound, and constantly transforming into a new arrangement. "Downer n°5" touches further on this light and graceful approach, while experimenting with more eclectic rhythmic design, taking the listener on a journey across vast continents, through a series of times and places.
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VA 033EP
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Tolga Fidan brings 2 full sides of the most expansive mind and body-moving music you'll find outside of a gypsy circle on Jupiter. If techno has a jazz-fusion subgenre, "Gaijin" is it, making Tolga Chick Corea with a strobe light. "Gaijin" goes to space while sporting an afro and a 15-piece avant-garde jazz band. "Drunk Rotations" applies an icy piano. A horn section appears, along with a modular synth and Theremin; however, you never lose the jack on this cosmic dancefloor.
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VALT 002EP
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Urban nomad Tolga Fidan presents the second edition in Vakant's limited series VALT with a much sought-after track which has been around for a while. Fidan has freshly moved to Berlin and says "So Long Paris" in such unique style, that he'll probably never leave Berlin again. Vakant's VALT series continues its mission to keep delivering straight dancefloor tracks. One-sided release.
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VA 018EP
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"Indubitably talented Tolga Fidan returns for his 3rd EP on Berlin's fulcrum of funkified tomfoolery, Vakant Heavy Industries. Zee young Frenchman by way of first Istanbul and then London has again taken his varied past to transgress genre and fused flavors to birth a creation that would make even the Iron Chef shiver with inferiority."
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VA 009EP
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"Pop a Dramamine, slap a patch behind your ear, and grab ahold of the railing, because Tolga Fidan's debut EP Now I'm Weak lurches like a dinghy on the high seas. (Might as well throw on a slicker, too, because you're gonna get wet.) You haven't heard a synth swell as seasick as the one on 'Abstract Prologues' since Motiivi:Tuntematon's sinking tanker of a track, '1939.' But as woozily as this 12" rolls, it never loses its grip on the floor: all three tracks are solidly grounded in the blunt, toe-stubbing funk that's become a trademark of Berlin's Vakant label, home to mega-talents of minimal like Alex Smoke, Mathias Kaden, Onur Özer, and Robag Wruhme."
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